Source:The Statutes at Large of the United States of AmericaSource type: government documentDocument type: federal statuteDocument title: “Chap. 1012.—An Act to Regulate the Immigration
of Aliens into the United States”Author(s): United States CongressVolume number: 32Part: 1
Publisher: Government Printing OfficePlace of publication: Washington, DC
Year of publication: 1903Pagination: 1213-22 (excerpt below includes only pages 1221-22)

“Chap. 1012.—An Act to Regulate the Immigration of Aliens
into the United States.” The Statutes at Large of the United States
of America. Vol. 32. Part 1. Washington, DC: Government Printing
Office, 1903: pp. 1213-22.

Section 2 of this statute (p. 1214) stipulates that “polygamists, anarchists,
or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence
of the Government of the United States or of all government or of all
forms of law, or the assassination of public officials” “shall be excluded
from admission into the United States.” Other such excluded “classes of
aliens” include the following: “All idiots, insane persons, epileptics,
and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who
have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers;
persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons
afflicted with a loathsome or with a dangerous contagious disease; persons
who have been convicted of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving
moral turpitude” and “prostitutes; and persons who procure or attempt
to bring in prostitutes or women for the purpose of prostitution. . .
.” (A margin note beside this section refers the reader to Vol. 26, p.
1084.)

Fifty-Seventh Congress, Session II.

From title page: The Statutes at Large of the United States of America,
from December, 1901, to March, 1903, Concurrent Resolutions of the Two
Houses of Congress, and Recent Treaties, Conventions, and Executive Proclamations.

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Chap. 1012.—An Act to Regulate the Immigration of Aliens into the United States
[excerpt]

SEC. 38. That no person who
disbelieves in or who is opposed to all organized government, or who is a member
of or affiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching such disbelief
in or opposition to all organized government, or who advocates or teaches the
duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer
or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the
Government of the United States or of any other organized government, because
of his or their official character, shall be permitted to enter the United States
or any Territory or place subject to the jurisdiction thereof. This section
shall be enforced by the Secretary of the Treasury under such rules and regulations
as he shall prescribe.
That any person who knowingly aids or assists
any such person to enter the United States or any Territory or place subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, or who connives or conspires with any person or
persons to allow, procure, or permit any such person to enter therein, except
pursuant to such rules and regulations made by the Secretary of the Treasury,
shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less
than one nor more than five years, or both. [1221][1222]
SEC. 39. That no person who
disbelieves in or who is opposed to all organized government, or who is a member
of or affiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching such disbelief
in or opposition to all organized government, or who advocates or teaches the
duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer
or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the
Government of the United States or of any other organized government, because
of his or their official character, or who has violated any of the provisions
of this Act, shall be naturalized or be made a citizen of the United States.
All courts and tribunals and all judges and officers thereof having jurisdiction
of naturalization proceedings or duties to perform in regard thereto shall,
on the final application for naturalization, make careful inquiry into such
matters, and before issuing the final order or certificate of naturalization
cause to be entered of record the affidavit of the applicant and of his witnesses
so far as applicable, reciting and affirming the truth of every material fact
requisite for naturalization. All final orders and certificates of naturalization
hereafter made shall show on their face specifically that said affidavits were
duly made and recorded, and all orders and certificates that fail to show such
facts shall be null and void.
That any person who purposely procures naturalization
in violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than
five thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more than
ten years, or both, and the court in which such conviction is had shall thereupon
adjudge and declare the order or decree and all certificates admitting such
person to citizenship null and void. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the
courts having jurisdiction of the trial of such offense to make such adjudication.
That any person who knowingly aids, advises, or
encourages any such person to apply for or to secure naturalization or to file
the preliminary papers declaring an intent to become a citizen of the United
States, or who in any naturalization proceeding knowingly procures or gives
false testimony as to any material fact, or who knowingly makes an affidavit
false as to any material fact required to be proved in such proceeding, shall
be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not less than one
nor more than ten years, or both.
The foregoing provisions concerning naturalization
shall not be enforced until ninety days after the approval hereof.
Approved, March 3, 1903.